Terry Jones, the Florida evangelical pastor who threatened to hold a Quran burning last Sept. 11 only to back down in the face of international outrage, finally went ahead and burned one. And now there’s a 2.2-million-dollar price on his head. Jones appointed himself “judge” and presided over a trial hearing evidence and testimony against [...]
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The biggest soap opera of 2009-10 has a new episode. An obscure DUI arrest last October in Florida is getting attention now that Alyse Lahti Johnston is rumored to be Tiger Woods’ new girlfriend. Terez Owens Online broke the story about Woods’ supposed new girlfriend over the weekend, saying the couple had been dating for [...]
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If you were ever curious about Mike Tyson’s opinion on the hit iPad app, Angry Birds, this is the video you’ve been waiting for. The former boxer and bird lover expresses his displeasure for the game in a video promoting his cable television show about pigeon racing on Animal Planet (wait, what?) apparently he doesn’t [...]
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A day after the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Cappie Pondexter, shooting guard and noted theologian of the WNBA’s New York Liberty, tweeted that the disaster was divine payback: “What if God was tired of the way they treated their own people in there own country!” and “They did pearl harbor so u can’t [...]
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College alumni love to spend March bragging about our teams in the NCAA basketball tournament. The rest of the year, we casually drop the names of our school’s most famous alumni and pretend we knew them back in freshman dorm. So this year, instead of wasting my time for hours with my annual hopeless bracket, [...]
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Bachelor (and bachelorette) parties aren’t my thing. This probably isn’t terribly surprising, if you read with any regularity. I’m just not a fan of the craziness that often comes with these drunk fests. Plus, personally, that intense “everyone is here for you” focus is really something I want no part of (I had to be [...]
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Music videos don’t have to be good to go viral on the Web — in fact, they can be so bad that you can’t help but stare slack-jawed at 3:48 of pure sh– um, shenanigans. Case in point: The new video for “Friday” by Rebecca Black, which exploded over the weekend as people found what [...]
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Atlantis, the legendary island metropolis, has allegedly been found in some mud flats in southern Spain, according to a Connecticut professor featured in the National Geographic TV special “Finding Atlantis” that aired on Sunday. University of Hartford professor Richard Freund and his global team used satellite images to pinpoint what they say is the location [...]
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Monday is March 14th. Make that 3/14 or perhaps 3.14. And so it is National Pi Day. You geeks and math nerds out there — who either are or soon will be running the world and our lives — already knew that. So go ahead, celebrate it by carrying it to the 25th decimal point. [...]
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We’ve seen many stunning still photos in recent days of the tsunami that struck northeastern Japan last Friday and the devastation it wrought. But seeing the giant waves in motion is something else again … James MacWhyte posted this stunning video on Facebook over the weekend, showing the tsunami moving down a city street, moving [...]
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